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Company: Amazon.com Inc.
Current Parent Company: Amazon.com
Penalty: $25,000,000
Year: 2023
Date: July 19, 2023
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: privacy violation
Mega-Scandal: Online Privacy
Violation Description: The Justice Department, together with the Federal Trade Commission, announced that Amazon.com Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary Amazon.com Services LLC agreed to a permanent injunction and a $25 million civil penalty as part of a settlement to resolve alleged violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule) and the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC Act) relating to Amazon's voice assistant service Alexa.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Justice Department Civil Division
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Washington
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: retailing
Specific Industry of Current Parent: retail-internet
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